Connecting Parents to Sunday School

How can you get parents involved in what their children are learning in Sunday School?  Send parents a notecard with a pre addressed envelope.  Maybe even go ahead and put a stamp on the envelope to make it easier for parents to drop it in the mail.  Encourage parents to write their child a note regarding the application of the lesson they will learn in Sunday School that week.  For example, as we learn about the Bible in the month of September, parents could write to children about why the Bible is important to them.  Tell parents to keep it a secret from their child and mail it back to you before that Sunday’s lesson.  Use the letters from the parents during class time.  Kids will be excited that their parents are involved in what they are doing in class.  Be sure to write a few letters for children who might be visiting or for children whose parents forget to send the card to their child.   Make it a quarterly or monthly activity to help keep parents aware of what their children are learning in class and to help them get involved in what their children are learning.  In our busy and modern lifestyles, there is not often any spiritual discussion at home.  This could be some of the only times that children hear spiritual advice from their parents.  Throughout a year, you could help children save these letters by allowing children to put all of the letters into a created scrapbook.